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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1940 PAGE THR General Motors Working on Big Order EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM OSHAWA SCHOOLS MADE GREAT PROGRESS IN 1940 -- Chairman Reports Board Will End Year With Surplus of $4,000 A survey of the year's activities by the Board of Education which held its final meeting for 1940 on Monday . night last indicates that considerable progress has been made in many branches of the city's edu- cational system. Dr. H. M. Cooke, chairman of the 1040 Board, stated that while the current Board of Education had come into office with a deficit of $2,150.54 remaining from 1939, it ex- pected to finish the year with a sur- plus of $4,000.00. Dr Cooke added that the chief factors contributing to the surplus was a very close scrutiny of expenditures, and the fact one resignation in the Collegi- ate staff had not been replaced in September, 1940. He also stated that the grant from the County to the Oshawa Board of Education had been slightly larger than had been anticipated due to an increased en- rollment of students from outside the city. Extend Manual Training During the past year instruction in manual training was extended to all eight public schools in Oshawa instead of only two as previously. In addition to this training, courses in Home Economics are now being taught in the entrance classes of all 'public schools and in a few of the lower grades. Another innova- tion during the past year was the establishment of an "Opportunity Class" at South Simcoe School for those students who found it difficult to keep up with the regular classes, Facilities Taxed War Emergency Classes which were begun during the summer holi- cays re-commenced this month and will continue until they are no longer deemed necessary. Many of the Collegiate"s facilities are now taxed to the utmost, especially the machine shop which is in operation 24 hours a day. There is also a strong possibility that a second class in welding will be organized as this training is considered gspecially im~ portant. Last year saw the agricultural plot at the Collegiate ienlarged and about 1,000 shade tregs and orna- (Continued on Page 10, Col. 3) WHITBY WOMAN LOSES BROTHER Funeral Service for Noted Rochester Professor Planned in Toronto A funeral service for the late Dr. T. Russell Wilkins, widely known professor of physics at the Unlver- sity of Rochester, brother of Mrs. Graydon Goodfellow, of Whitby, will be held in Toronto. No date or time for the service has been set as yet. Dr. Wilkins, native of Toronto, was stricken with a 'heart attack as he walked from the faculty club to his campus pffice. He hzd been 2 member of the Rochester faculty since 1926. He received a bachelor of arts degree from McMaster Uni- versity in 1912. Two months ago he announced an advance in his study of the atom, in ch a special cam- era he perfected made possible the determination "energy levels in- side the nuclei stable chemical elements. Dr. Wilkins rec of philosophy frof of Chicago in 19. struetor at the cago in 1916-17, a jprofessor at Bran- don College fromy 1918 to 1925 and a student at Cambridge Universit in 1925-26. He was a mem ved his doctorate the University He was an in- niversity of Chi- ser of the Amer can Physical y, Optical So- ciety of America, Sigma XI and the American Academy for the Ad- vancement of Science. In October, 1939, he received special honors from the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. WHEN SPUDS ARE SPUDS One day last month the grocery stores at Yellowknife, way up north, ran out of potatoes simultaneously. Mr. Hardham, @ go-getter business man, suddenly remembered there was a Canadian Airways plane just about to leave for Fort Smith and return. ich Hardham calle" Kez Razzell, the airline agent, and asked him to send a note to Fort Smith asking for a dollar's worth of potatoes to be put on the return trip. 2 Razzell jotted down "Please shoot buck's worth spuds Hardham," handed the note to the pilot and dispatehed the ship. " Next 'y Alderman to Give Survey Council Work 'Alderman John Stacey, senior civic official whose municipal ex- perience in Oshawa dates back many years, is to be special speaker at Friday night's meeting of the Oshawa Property Owners' Associa- tion. His address will deal princi- pally with the activities of the city council in 1940 but other matters in connection with the municipality as a whole will be touched on. On the following Friday, Decem- ber 20, Mayor J. C. Anderson, K.C,, will address the property owners taking as his subject "Workings of the 1940 City Council." Both meetings are to be he'd at the Hotel Genosha and will com- mence at 8 o'clock, with the president, Alex Durie, presiding. All interested, both men and women, are cordially invited to attend. OSHAWA TINES 1S APPRECIATED BY HEN OVERSEAS Sgt. Watts Says "Things Going Well"; Paper Eagerly Read Somewnere-in-England November 22, 1940. Editor Oshawa Times, Dear Sir: Once more I write to you on be- boys in this unit to thank you for The Oshawa Times which arrives regularly with every Canadian mail Only two copies have been missed since I began receiving them last winter. They are eagerly sought after and just as eagerly read by half of myself and the other Oshawa | ammunition had given out. plane safely. If He Can't Shoot Em D This smiling member of the Royal Air Force keeps a scoreboard of the number of Nazi planes he shoots | down and according to the swastikas painted on his plane he has shot déwn 23 to date. of a squadrea of Hurricanes that tangled with an Italian bomber squadron attacking London. The Hum - ricanes shot down seven of the 13 Italians and this squadron leader deliberately rammed another after his | He tore off a portion of the caemy's wing and then landed his own damaged | own, He Rams Them He is the leader | | GLAIMS BOMBING LONDON HITLER'S SERIOUS BLUNDER Lt. Mason Describes London Conditions to Oshawa Civil Guard That the indiscriminate bombing of London was Hitler's most serious mistake is the opinion of Lt. H. K. Mason of the Royal Canadian Ord- nance Corps who described condi- tions in England to members of the Volunteer Civil Guards at the Le- gion Hall last night. Lt. Mason spent six months in various parts of England returning to Canada in October. A graphic picture of the complete blackout that envelopes England every night was drawn. Vehicles must travel | at reduced speeds with headlights shielded allowing only enough light to be visible to avoid collision but | not enough to light the roadway. ' According to the speaker one of the | most dangerous undertakings in | London is to cross a busy street during a blackout. The speaker stated that when he | | arrived in England the group with | Oshawa's 1941 city council will assessment as prepared by Assess- ment Commissioner C. G. Luke re- veals, ments in the assessment total as necessitated since the assessment Land Sales Since Oct, 1940 .. assessment upon which to levy the | tax rate for next year a compre- | $26,210,695 in 1939. This is some- hensive statement on the 1940 city | After including all adjust- | Land 1940 As Returned ............ 5,212,780 4,633 roll was returned at the end of | at $26,555,563 as compared with what less than the total returned in October. The deducticns developed in var- | fous quarters but the heaviest single item was the deduction ot | $119,275 covering vacant property | Property Assessment In Oshawa Increased This Year which he was connected was sent | to an English east coast town and was billeted in a tourist hotel which was deserted due to heavy bomb- | ing by German planes. He was at | this town when the invasion of the | Low Countries took place and dur- | i ing the night could see the red! | reflection in the sky of explosions | {aken over by the city in the tax bave $344,868 more in pragrty | October, the total assessment is set | Sale of 1939, which was transferred from the taxable column to the list of exempted property. Actually the increased assess- | ment would increase the city's tax | income by $10,498 and the 1940 as- | sessment rate of 302 mills, The complete statement as com- piled by the Assessment Commis- | sioner is as follows: ~-- TAXABLE ALL PURPOSES -- Business 3,487,670 Total 23,110,855 4,633 Bldgs. 17,898,075 Court of Revision Reduc- 5,217,413 17,808,075 23,115,488 3,487,670 14,625 15,273 all. If you have ever been a long, long way frém home you will realize just how lonely we are, despite the grand hospitality of the English people, and how hungry we get for news besides that which we get in letters from our families and friends I suppose by now winter sports are beginning to make their appear- ance in opposition to late rugby. Tell "Soup" Campbell to keep up the good work on his sport page. We get a variety of daily, semi- weekly and weekly papers from all parts of Canada but "Soup's" page, especially sport snapshots has them all beaten. Things are going well for us here. We have just finished a fourth pefiod of intensive training under Lt.-General McNaughton who be- lieves, and rightly so,"that we are the fastest moving and best trained of all the British ground forces. Ignore Bombs The almost continuous night bombings do not affect us much. We have gotten used to them. Dur- ing the first few nights of the air battles last summer we dove for shelter on hearing a "screamer" coming, but now we just ignore them all. If we are in bed we just turn over; if up and around we bet on how far away it will land. As you know, we are now living in billets, "donated" by the more wealthy people of England. There are many lovely estates and man- sions among them. The one head- quarters Company now occupies be- longs to an English Earl, (can't mention names) and is quite some house. It has about fifty rooms in it including a large "Old English" chapel. The grounds surrounding it are beautiful with luxuriant lawns covering about 14 acres; a large rock garden, fish ponds, lovely box hedges and a large rose arbor. We're very "posh" now, as the Eng. lish say. All this makes for a lovely war, although none of us are kidding ourselves any. We know worse things are coming, and soon. And we are working hard and playing hard in anticipation. If there are any at home who think we are doing noth- ing and having a whale of a good time, tell them to come on over and we'll show them around. Perhaps I had better close for this time and do a little work myself Once again thank you for the papers. A merry Christmas to you and the staff and to all the people of dear old Oshawa. Yours for better bombing Berlin). (of SGT. A. E. WATTS HQ. Coy. No. 3, Hastings and Prince Edward Rgt. C.ASPF. FLYERS FROM RHODESIA Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. -- (CP--Reuters) --Southern Rhodesia will supply 1800 pilots, 240 air ob- servers and 340 air gunners a year when the local section of the Em- pire Air ag eg come into operation in f next 3 the incom lot brought a neat little : four packages of Spud cigarettes! Ld ear, it is learned officially here. Transferred Public to Sep. 5,216,763 5,217,348 17,883450 23,100213 3,484,295 68,575 23,168,788 16,945 tlie. 3,501,240 67,990 17,951,440 3375, School Support Public Separate 25,120,024 1,460,501 4318 315 | Total 26,598,525 4,633 26,603,158 25,133,342 1,460,816 | and fires, While at a south coast port the | speaker said that the chief incon- | venience met with was the diffi- culty of getting sleep. Immediate- ly outside the hotel in which he was staying four anti-aircraft guns were mounted. The concussion from these guns consistently shat- tered windows in the hotel. During his stay at this port the harbor | was attacked by dive bombers and, being a stranger in England, he ad- mitted that he neglected the air- rald warning and remained at a window to watch the action. The! bombers circled around amid the | anti-aircraft fire until they were , | between their object and the sun. | One at a time they then dived at | | the same angle as the sun's rays. | 18,650 18,265 385 26,584,508 25,115,077 1,460,431 85,520 26,670,028 70,493 25,185,570 7.475 15,027 | a x 1,484,458 | 7475 Transferred Separate to Pub- lic EE ET REF | 25,178,095 1491033 | 4,185 Transferred Exempt To Tax- Transferred Taxable To Ex- 5,223,753 1,670 8.075 4,185 | 25,182,280 1,487,748 8,075 8.075 17,953,110 1,075 23,176,863 3,265 3,501,240 Land Taken Over by City at 1939 Tax Sale, Transferred to Exempted Land 5,221,563 17,952,085 23,173,598 3,501,240 119,275 26,678,103 3,265 25,190,355 1,487,748 3,265 ' 26,674,438 25,187,000 1,487,748 119,275 113,645 5,630 | Total as Finally Revised .... 1939 Revised 5,102,288 + 5,208,165 17,952,035 17,571,550 23,054,323 22,719,715 3,501,240 3,430,980 Increase 1940 As Returned Additions School Rates Only 105,877 LIABLE SCHOOL RATES and 380,485 274,608 70,260 30,930 6,000 317,780 6,000 317,605 1,625 1939 as Revised ... 6,850 7,1940 39,130 80,835 43,780 162,990 36,930 155,800 Decrease .... Public School Separate School Collegiate 340 TOTAL ASSESSMENT FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES 118,870 119,210 50,705 25,156,355 1,482,118 26,638,473 RELIEF ONLY 1940 Total Taxable . 1939 Total Taxable .... Increase ... 1,482,118 1417221 26,555,563 26,210,695 25,073,445 24,793,474 344,868 279,971 64,807 75,385 7,525 82,910 252,825 169,915 75,385 7,525 82,910 252,825 169,915 26,638,473 26,463,520 174,953 G.M. Corporation Announces Changes Detroit, Dec. 12.--C. E. Wilson, acting president of General Motors Corporation, today announced the following organization changes ef- fective immediately: B. D. Kunkle to be Vice President in Charge of Personnel. F. O, Tanner to be Vice President in Charge of Manufacturing. W. C. Williams, Jr, to be Vice President in Charge of the Acces- sory Divisions. L. C. Goad, General Manager of the AC Spark Plug Division at Flint, Michigan, will be transferred to De- troit as assistant to Mr. Williams, George Mann, Jr, who has been with General Motors for 21 years becomes General Manager of the AC Spark Plug Division, Messrs. Kunkle and Tanner have been Vice Presidents and members of the Administration Committee and will continue as members of this committee. Mr. Williams was elected a Vice President of General Motors and a member of the Ad- ministration Committee at the Board of Directors meeting on Dec, 2nd. Mr. Mann, who has been Assistant Secretary and Director of Industrial Relations for the AC Spark Plug zation since Jan. 1, 1019, Division has been with the organi- Buys Holstein Cattle From Local Breeders Mr. Leonard Knauff, Greencastle, Pa., has just completed ihe pur- chase of thirty-four head of pure- bred Holstein-Friesian animals from breeders in the counties of Ontario and Durham. Those who contributed were: Est. T. G. Webster, Port Perry; J. E. Wilson, Claremont; J.. G. Dobson, Port Perry; Geo. K. Beare, Ux- bridge; Elmer J. Powell, Whitby; G. H. Walker, Port Perry; Est. Geo. Smith, Port Perry; M. C. Smith, Burketon. . FALL PROVES FATAL TO GEORGE HALL Belleville, Dec. 11--Injured in a fall in his barn while working, George Herbert Hall, 1st concession of Ameliasburg Township, died in Belleville General Hospital Monday from a fractured skull. Mr, Hall was one of the best~ known agriculturists of the district, having reside there all his life. He was born on Huff's Island, in Prince Eward County, 64 y ars ago and was a son of Mr, and Mrs. Lawrence Hall, He was a member of Redners- ville United Church, and belonged to the 1.O.O.F. of Rednersville vil- lage. 5 SIMPSON STAFF 1S GIVEN BONUS Those With Firm Over Year Get Two Weeks' Pay Toronto, Dec. 12--Employes of the Robert Simpson Company, Ltd., are to receive Christmas bonuses, The notice posted on the bulletin board reads: "This fall's business has been 8ood and is above our expectations. The increased burden of work upon our staff has been considerable. We realize, too, the war has placed ob- ligations and burdens upon each of Us. In view of these conditions we have decided to pay each regular employe a war-time bonus, includ- Ing those on active service. Regu- lar employees who have been with us steadily since Jan. 1, 1940, will receive two wesks' pay. Those since July 1, 1949, one week's pay, and those «ince Noy, 1; one-half week's pay. Thesepayments will be subject to National Defense Tax, : "We mush gppreciate the loyal service rendered and hope the com- ing festive gencon will bring and happiness t6 one ang all, "The 't Simpson Co, Ltd, (Signed) "0, 1, Burton, president.' FATALACCIDENT | | on December 1st in a car accident Ontario County Crop Improvement survey supplies of good seed will be unfavourable harvesting conditions. During this particular attack they | were not successful in securing hits | | on any target of military signific- | ance, -- WL i: | JURY EXONERATES DRIVER OF CAR IN Death of Frank Wall Was Accidental, Verdict of Jury Decides (Special to The Times) Whitby, Dec. 11.--A coroner's jury | empanelled by Chief Ccunty Cor- oner Dr. R. T, McLaren last night returned a verdict of "accidental death" after hearing evidence on the death of Frank Wall, aged 58, Pickering township, who was killed near Kinsale. Wall died next, day as the result of injuries sustained when he was struck by a car driven by William McGuire, 402 Gloucester street, To- ronto. McGuire stated that he blew | bis horn when he saw McGuire one hundred yards away and that the | deceased man, who was walking west at the time, stepped off to- wards the edge of the road. The jury's verdict evonerated him of all blame. "He went to go over to the south side as he should, and I pulled over to the centre of the road. Then all of a sudden he seemed to change his mind and stepped back in front of me," testified McGuire. Bad Road Conditions Mrs. James Marks, Kinsale, stated that she saw Wall walking along the highway at about 4:30 p.m. "He was coming up the centre of the road from the east, looking towards our house, I went to the door and asked him how he was. He said he was fine and asked me "how are (Continued on Page 10, Col. 3) Making Seed Survey In Ontario County The. Ontario County Branch of the Ontario Department of Agri- culture, in co-operation with the Association, is carrying on a seed survey in this county. Through this located. A similar survey was -carried on a year ago as a special war-time project. As a result of that survey, it is generally agreed that farmers in the county planted more good seed than ever before. The survey this year is not. only important as a war-time project, but it will be of great assistance in furnishing good seed to these: sec tions of thé Province where there is a scarcity of good seed owing to Farmers having grain which is suitable for ceed are asked to:list this seed with the agricultural rep=- resentative at Uxbridge. i key contest. --see his beautiful gifts for every- body. Oshawa! AND BRITISH ACCOUNT : REVEALED BY SLOAN ORDERS FOR CANADIAN Timber Controller LOREN L. BROWN Who has been appointed to suc- ceed H. R. MacMillan as timber controller for Canada, Mr. Brown, who is vice-president and director of Dominion Tar and Chemical Co., Montreal, has been deputy timber controller in the department of munitions and supply since June. Mr. MacMillan, who was appointed | timber controller on June 24, has resigned to devote his entire atten- tion to the duties of his new office as chairman of the wartime re- quirements board, TREES AND LIGHTS IN SHOPPING AREA BEING INSTALLED Fine Display Windows Add to Attractiveness of Business Section Employees of the city works de- partment yeSterday started the erec- | tion of evergreen trees on Simcoe and King streets, which are later to be adorned with strings of color- ed lights by employees of the Public ! Utilities Commission. The trees were ordered and delivered in time to be put up the first week in December but on account of the heavy storm the works department found it in- convenient to erect the sta:xdards as their time was devoted to clearing the streets of snow. Before the end of the week the downtown streets will have the ap. pearance of the festive season which it has attained in the past few years through the co-operation of the merchants, the Public Utilities Com- mission and the Chamber of Com- merce, The merchants have taken extra pains this year to present attractive window displays, which with the green trees and their decorations together with the strings of colored lights, make the shopping area in Oshawa very attractive. About 100 trees will be used on King and Sim. coe streets. | Red Cross Appeal For Five Millions Goes Well Over Top The Canadian Red Cross Society has gone well over the top in its nation-wide appeal for $5,000,000 and the total realized to date is $5,- 904,989. Norman Sommerville, K.C,, naticnal chairman, announces. The people of Ontario County re- sponded well according to the list of places and amounts sent out from headquarters. These include Brock-Sunderland, $891; Brooklin, $816; Cannington, $585; Clare- mont and North Pickering, $957; Greenbank, $174; Myrtle, $376; Oshawa, $40,000; Pickering, $475; Uxbridge, $705; Whitby, $3,100, making' a total of $47,188. Amounts received from the vari- ous provinces are as follows: Prince Edward Island, $28,000; Nova Scotia, $220,151; New Bruns- wick, $130,088; Quebec, $1,245,000; Ontario, $2,869,236; Manitoba, $368. 000; Saskatchewan, $250.000; Al- berta, $259,514; British = Columbia, $535,000. : Watkins Dealer Given Diploma and Badge Your Watkins Dealer, Mr. Frank Danzey, has just received his sec- ond diploma and second badge for e salesmanship, He also stands in fourth place in Ontario in the Christmas gift tur- With only one more week to go Let's bring that Turkey to U.S. Corporation Plans. New York, Dec. 12--General Mote ors Corporation has announced its defense orders so far total $400,000, 000. At the same time it disclosed plans for a big production of Diesel engines, armaments, trucks and ale lied equipment. . General Motors Canadian plants are working on $60,300,000 of orders for British and Canadian account. Alfred P. Sloan Jr. chairman of the corporation, said in a letter to stockholders the United States de- fense program entails an investment by General Motors of approximately $100,000,000, including additional working capital requirements. This is apart from plant facilities being provided by the Government. In addition to Allison airplane en= gines, which account for two-fifths of the total defense orders, said Sloan, General Motors is "produe- ing or preparing to produce Diesel engines for the navy, machine guns for the army, trucks for the British, Canadian and American Govern- ments and a large variety of mis- | cellaneous equipment including shells, fuses, gu;i mounts and aire plane instruments." FORESTERS ELECT OFFIGERS FOR 1941 Walter Axtel Heads Canadian Order Foresters Oshawa Court Walter Axtel was elected Chief Ranger of Court Oshawa -No. 501, Canadian Order of Foresters, at the regular and annual meeting of the local Court on Monday evening of this week. The new slate of officers include the following: Chief Ranger--Walter Axtel Vice Chief Ranger--Bud Hender= son, Chaplain--Harold Strathdee. Rec. Secretary--Edward Hender son. Fin. Secretary--Mr. Turk. Sr. Woodward--Reg. Burr, Jr. Woodward---T. Martin. Sr. Beedle--C. Snowden. Jr. Beedle--H. B, "Dusty" Claus. Auditors -- George Lee, Eddie Henderson. % Trustees--D.D.HCR. H. B. Mce Cabe, "Bud" Henderson, W. Axtel, These officers along with the of= ficers of Court Bowmanville, are to be installed into office at the Oshawa Court on January 6. 'The installation will be open to the pube lic and is to be concluded by a card party and dance, s A vote of thanks to George Lee, Chief Ranger for the past year, was tendered for his loyal services throughout the year. Ray Clark re= signed from the office of recording secretary owing to military duties. He had filled the post in a most faithful manner, 2 The social committee, under the direction of Messrs. Strathdes, Henderson and Axtel, entertained members and friends from Bowe manville and Oshawa at a euchre' party at the clcse of the meeting, The winners were Mrs. Henderson, Mrs. Burke, Mrs. Denny, Mrs. Spires and Fred Stannard. = Mrs. Robinson was the winner of the lucky draw. The social committee is arrang- ing for a patriotic dance in aid of the British war victims' fund to be held in January. Other activities on the winter's program are an ama- teur hour and other interesting events, Members of Court Oshawa were entertained at Bowmanvill on December 10. WAR--25 YEARS AGO TODAY (By The Canadian Press) ; Dec. 12, 1915--Anglo-French ex= pedition withdrew from Serbia. Buls garians entering Doiran and Gheve gell. Turkish attacks at Kutel« Amara . repulsed. British troops bombarded German positions of Ypres and near Frehenghien in Belgium. y Thank you for your splendid sup- port and wishing you a happy Christmas. TAKETHE "LEADY FEELING Blood and Get the nding Up the hero death die 1 omBletely cut a "id 9h are slowly red co! Pug Ir Oxygen-c: u breathe in to eps m Without enough oxye our kidneys, liver, down. Your gets pale, flabby, often plinply. " set es tary as ply. Your nerves u tire quickly «= Lg